NBC Panel Proclaims ‘Watershed Moment’ for Gay Catholics, Demands Women Priests

'Today' Panel Proclaims 'Watershed Moment' for Gay Catholics, Demands Women Priests (NewsBusters)

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about comments from Pope Francis on homosexuality, co-host Matt Lauer asked the group of usual liberal pundits if the Pontiff's remarks were a "watershed moment for gays in the Church" or "just a very minor shift."

Advertising executive Donny Deutsch cheered: "I think it was a watershed moment. I think we're seeing a moment in time from the Catholic Church, all across what's happening in this country with laws being passed, that the gay lifestyle is finally becoming like, 'Yeah, so what?'"